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T FIE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT COPANY, Limited. Capital 211"rPerated under M the Joint- s t oc k C om p an i es A c t , 1862. 4000,000, in 80,000 Shares of £5O each, with power . Z ir st issue 40,000 Shares, to increase of which 30,000 Shares are e4(IY s ubscribed. £1 on application and £4 on allotment. DIRECTORS. a Excellency Senor M. Jose de Salamanca, of Paris and Madrid -W . ill ,, i ara Latham Bailey, Esq. (Messrs. Bailey Brothers 5i,11,',90.), Liverpool, I tc ; "an Gray, Director of the Land Securities Company. bert Simpson, Ci v .- Esq. (Messrs. Fredk. Levick and Co.), 1, s te ‘ , elyn Iron Works, and London. Co.) S. . Fletcher, Eiq. (Messrs. Alexander, Fletcher, and S L . XO5, Esq., Bowling Iron Company, Vmel Gibson Getty Esq., M.P., Belfast. Bradford. ,Eavier (Messrs. S. and J. B. Bavier, Bankers), Switnr land. , vemtlesLevita, Advocate to the Austrian Legation, Paris. IC, :' - '''Llls, Esq., Gresham House, Director of the Dub ]) J. and Drogheda Railway. Geo; Drogheda Esq , Director of the Bank of Hindustan. ge P. Kitson' Esq King's Arms-yard, Director of 9 - .o„.the Continent a l Ban k ing Corporat i on . '-'• Alers Hankey, Esq., 2.5, Old Broad•street. BANKERS. The Bank of London. SOLICITORS. M eSSrM. Sole, Turners, and Hardw' x it, 68, Aldermanbury. aleßßOK:uns. -811 0• Seymour and Co., -Bank-chambers, Throgmorton. street. , OFFICES. ;1, king's Arms-yard. SECRETARY (PRO TEbl.) Frederick Wilkins, Esp. I,The Co rr Mal ic i a , JIMMY is formed as an auxiliary to t he Great It is 4 Associations r e cently established. the ,not the province of these Institutions to carry out tain . . ll ,„ ° lic works contemplated in the concessions they ob tio4 of They are therefore compelled to seek the co-opera dati , contractors whose capital and position offer an un ile„ea?le guarantee for the completion of the works, thus 113viog the financial associations of that responsibility. all constamAly increasing scale on which public works of ads are carried out, and the immense capital involved, place them beyond the reach of individual contractors un ,l4,ol3r.orted by joint-stock enterprise. le company has, therefore, been formed for the pur aaccpose ( Jf undertaking the execution of gre at p ublic works, arrangements have been entered into with well kn o wn l jt e ll tra etors, by which contracts to the amount of £ 11,000,000 r ung will be turned over to the Company. Among other contracts handed over to the Company is bat for the construction of the European Central Railway, :etch has been secured on favourable terms, and will be 1 1 1 1 :neneed forthwith. The active services of an eminent Contractor, whose busi -0l 4.... , nas ben secured, retained to execute e work il term s highly advantageowillbue s to the Company, he t re h taining tt, al'ge interest in the Company by receiving payment for 44 e transf of his contracts in Shares with £5 only credited thereon. It la well known that many undertaking s of g reat cog- c ontractors value have hitherto remained in abey ance for want k 'ontractors who can command the necessary resources to C ure their completion. This Company, combining the in elice of a large subscribed capital, extensive financial co 43erations at home and abroad, with administrative experi aliclecd ability, will secure such an amount of confidence A ""e . part of governments. public bodies, and the great teatienleial institutions, as will enable it to command an ex pe business on favourable terms. at th r e eePectuses, with forms of application, may be obtained t i t Offices of the Company, also from the Brokers, Soli and Bankers. b e " the event of no allotment being made the deposits will allo t r i eturned in full. Should a less number of shares be availed Le d than are applied for, the depos its will be made b a le towards the payment on allotment , and the t nee) if any, returned to the applicant. T AE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT COMPANY (Limited,. PORU OF APPLICATION FOR SIT L ARES. To be retained by the Banke,fB. T O the Directors of the Internatio Gent' (Limited , „ t oir , emen,—Ylaving paid to r .Aal Contract Company ah u on, the sum of £ your Bank ers, the Bank rer being a deposit of Li are on ( Meat shares in ,„.. e that you will all' ' s he above Company, I hereby re -4 me that number ; and I agree to i t Z I P,.t such shares, or any less number you may allot me ; Arti c a l agree to pay t'de deposit on allotment, and to sign the I Itn ,,e o B of Assoerstion of the Company when ofdrequire , a 1 ber s T rise you to insert my name on the Register Diem for the number of shares allotted to me Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession ....._ Date AMENDED PROSPECTUS. PE IMPERIAL BANK of CHINA, INDIA, and JAP.&} (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. Introduced by The CREDIT MOBILIER (Limite3). Capital £2,00:o.000, in 40,000 Shares of £5O each. First issue, 20,000 Shares. Nprosit on Application £1 per Share, and £ 4 on Allot zleat 11 ), -",Plant Calls not to exceed £5 per Share, and at inter vals of not less than Three Months. 11. ° call will be made until after the expiration of Three It Months from the date of Al lotment. I • is not intended to call up more than £lO per Share; but as the operations of the Company increase, and more 'Share Capital can be advantageously employed, further issues of Shares will be made, a preference being given to the then existing Shareholders. DIRECTORS. Richard C. Coles, Esq. (Coles, Brown , a nd Co.), Lotion. win Cotton Curtis, Esq, (Robarts, Lubbock, an d Co. ) , "madon . French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda r ailway. ( Lim m it ed • aes Levick, Esq., Director of the Cre dit Mobilier ). Morrison, Esq , Director of the Bank of Ota g o. It o obert B arc l ay Reynolds, Esq. (Reynolds, Mann , and P eter London and Liverpool. b ter Rolt, Esq. (Peter Rolt and Co.), Lon don. r• Fredk. Stuart Wortley, late member of t he El g in E Jassy to China. 0 1 , Alackrill Sm , ith, Esq. (Mackrill Smith, and Co.), 35, Broad-street London, and Shanghai. (With power to add to their numbers.) BANKERS. Il essrs , Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Newbon, Evans, alld Co., Nicholas-lane. Messrs. Edwards and Westminster. r4ROKERS. Th ro .._sre• taorton Field, Son, and Wood, 9, Warnford-court, K , es sreet. ars, Robins end Barber, 29, Threadneedle-street, E,C. At th,., TEMPORARY OFFICES. is '4lll, B 6: ee s' ti utQa6 of the Credit Mobilier (Limited), 80, Lom- SECRETARY (PRO TEM ) T. Short, Esq. PROSPECTUS. `ulish e - Imperial Bank of China, In dia, and Japan is esta q th o ' to meet the increasing demand of the commerce W h. B° ceuntr'es for additional Banking accommodi!tion. ( he j9nit is onsidered that the total paid-up capital of is tc , °int Stock Banks doing business in China and India th e `P. l. ° B ented by the inadequate sum of £6,000.000, whilst "loi l - gregate of imports and exports with Great Britain ~`t amountedj in the year 1862 to a total of £70,000,00 0 , "ttle r ,,, u , e . apparent that there is an ample field for a new O r -14 Ing of this neture. ever eat Britain imports from China and Japan an annual °bola" of upwards of seven million pounds of silk, and 11. °110 hundred and twenty million pounds of tea. the 'lied Kingdom increase is of s h o wn as trade betunder ween China, India, and : Total between trade India, China, and Years. United Kingdom. 1854 ...................... £33,643,000 T h 1862 ..... ................ 70,540,000 tkriiile°lnm e r c e between India and China has also increased tit er , 'As the past twenty years from three to fifteen millions T he balance of trade with China and India is paid in 186.1 ° Q, chiefly silver, of which t he ex p ort value was in £8,263,011. est at ';', e , Imperial Bank of China , Ind ia, and Japan has bees ofagehed on the basis of similar institutions, the success li e ., 7 " 4 ,ich the following table will exemp lif y , and it is be ll '°Q at least equal results will mark the progress of this ; Paid up Present per Price per Share. Share. 4 gra and United Eervice. ....:: X.SO £145 C hartered Mercant il e of India, ~5 70 o ,London, and China ........ z '4artered of India, Australia, !tnd China Aiadostan, China, and Japan 25 40 or iental 4 4 Imperial Bank of China, India, and Japan will tran• east D eposi t all operations connected with those o . f a B a nka of Issue, stitfosit, Discount, and Exchange, in China he East th e as soon as necessary arrangements can be completed, business of the Ban k will be extended to the Australian Col onies. 1 , 11 d* • an d controlling authority will bl e 3 in Lon t ° I, - eßirrnencatihiltanks will be formed in the first instance oth.,ghai, Hong Kong, .Bombay, and Calcutta, and at such 411 - 1 7 r places as may from time to time be deemed advis• o '. The Branches will be unde r the control of the G Mott Board, aided by the super vision of an Inspector 4etieral• The authorisation ofthe.Government at Pekin I been solicited to allow the Specie_Nuottieess,of the Bank to and an official e4 t eceived in payment of Customs D P e t ' ! B Ponence is now being carried on by the Bank with The forthat object. tall ;: a growing necessity and desire f or the render introduction of kle cf , aY and telegraphic communication in China will Wiir b s ary extensive financial operations, which the bank i v e favourably situated to underti!ke. _<- . .l°_ l : r ' sh applications for Shares will be r eceived _. .. Name of Bank. 111-11 E IMPERIAL.BANK of CHINA. IN DIA, and JAPAN (Limited). —The following Circular has berilaY been sen t t o e ach applicant for Shares in the lta- Th e % Bank of Chi na (Limited) : T p i naperial Bank of China, India, and J a p an ( Limited), „ j - 1 , 1:417) ,YarY Offices, 80, Lombard - st reet, A p ril 22, 1804. am instructed to inform you that in consequence . of s , a ll 'i re at encouragement held out to the proposed Imperial 4i4 of China (Limited), since the prospectus has been eal3tied the Directors have found it absolutely necessary to V ° the basis aid spherb of operations. th, this object they have determined u p on increasin g of S 4 Pital of the Bank to Two Millions, in 40,000 Shares tts,,, - ;° each, and issuing 20,000 Shares, instead of 10,000, ,-, hiall 3' announced ; the title has also been made more k ti lt t,-re h e • wove vlz the Imperial Bank of China, India, I : a Pan (Lim ' ited). De et „ --111 further requested to enclose you the amended Pros to apd to place at your diEposai the option of confirm. to tie Withdrawing your Application for Shares ; .but in (ap w e ggence of the very largo number of Sh!tres . applied for tat a ds of 92 000) no additional applications can be P h t ained. " . 4 d,j 4 . "„ Q Board Meet ng for the purpose of allotment stands 'h e :Pled to Thursday, the 28th inst. ; your decision must, ,1, , 1;:`,° r ,e , be received at this Office not later than Wednes ‘4e. ,"th instant. at Twelve o'clock ; all such as are not ' e eived will be considered as withdrawn. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, THOMAS SHORT, Secretary (pro torn.). T HE ENGLISH and FOREIGN CREDIT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the LIST of AP PLICATIONS for SHARES in this Company will be CLOSED, for London, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th inst., at Four o'clock, and on THURSDAY, the 2Sth inst , for the Ccuntry. Ey order, CHESTER E ARLES, Sec. pro tem. 2, Copthall• chambers, A nAel-court, Turogmor ton street, 22d April, 1861. TE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). Capital One Million Stirling, ' in 40,000 Shares of £25 each. £1 per Share to be paid on application. and Ll 10s. per Share pn allotent. Calls not exceeding £1 per Share, at interials - Oniot less than Three Months. DIRECTORS. John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper Th am es. street, Director of the National Provincial Marine Insurance Company. George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard. street. Johningledew, Esq., Cambridge House, Lee Park, Kent. William Knight, Esq. (Messrs. William Knight and Co.), 83, Lombard-street. Henry Ledgard, Esq., Forest-hill, Kent. George S. Symons , Esq. (Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.), 20 and 21, St. Dunstan's-hill. John E. Tibbs, Esq. (Messrs. J. E. Tibbs and Son), Threadneedle-street, Director of the Staffordshire Roll ing Stock Company. James Lunham, Esq. (Messrs. James Lunham and Co.) , ] ' 231, High-street, Borough. Jabez Voss, Esq. (M essrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.), Billiter square. Walter Brodie, Esq ., 13. Delamere .terrace, Hyde-park, late Member of the House of Representatives, New I Zealand. (Influential names in Manchester and Liverpool will be immediately added to the Direction.) BANKERS —The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 79, 1 Cornhill, E.O. S OLIC ITORS —Messrs. Bennett and Stark , 4, Furnival's Inn, Holborn. SURVEYOR —James Edmeston, Esq., F.1.8.A., Crown court, Old Broad-street. BROKERS —Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street. AUDITORS —Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E,C. GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers. SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges. OFFICES-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard astreet, E.C. This Company haS for its purpose the transaction of the important and remunerative business of Fire Insurance, and that only, to the exclusion of other branches of busi ness not unusually associated with it, under the same direc tion, and operating on one and the same capital. The Directors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire insurance presented by this country and its dependenciesount , is, as a commercial s p eculation, deserving of param attention ; and, the contract being one terminable annually, the profits or loss arising determine in like manner, year by year, and exhibit at once a company's financial position and its resources. While the partial remission at the fire insurance duty now in the contemplation of Government, and applicable only to the insurance of stock-in-trade, will afford a com paratively limited relief from the onerous oppression, the Directors have resolved to allow upon payment for every policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate draw back, which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex. tinction of the entire duty of three shillings per cent. To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the manufacturing and mercantile community, this arrange ment will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw back allowed by a few of the, older offices by way of per tentage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of im portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging chiefly from one guinea per cent. upwards, and is partici pated in only by those who may have premiums to be re newed at the period of the making of these returns; whereas by the principle adopted by this Company, the owners of the classes of risk of the more ordinary occurrence, are they who will be the more substantially and at the same time promptly benefited. The concession to be thus made to the public will cer tainly be the means not only of increasing in their respec tive amounts insurances now existing, but of multiplying to a very large extent the number of insurance contracts in this country and its colonial connections. The insurable property in this kingdom alone, including its enormous and increasing importations arising from the wise interchange of tariffs, is believed to approxim ate to £5,000,000,000, whereas 300,000,000 only is insured ; thus leaving nearly three-fourths of the insurable amount altogether unprotected from loss. It would be difficult to find any class of investments which has yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in creased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre mium of about 1,300, and in another of nearly 2,000 per cent. on the sums originally paid up. The increased value of the shares of offices established within the last 20 years tends at from 80 to 200 per cent. s It is under these circumstances, and considering the im.• mense field presented for operations to come, that the direc tors have taken advantae . e of so favourable an opportunity to offer to the public the'benefits of the principle of business now adopted by them ; and they have every reason to believe that by its special feature and the public support which that must necessarily invite the undertaking will speedily be productive of the best moneary results. The executive will be entrusted to officers of tried experi ence in the busin re insurance, and the directors have already matured arrangements for the immediate establish ment of five hundred agencies. The directors desire to give the most unqualified assur ance to the public that nothing of the nature of frivolous objections to a prompt and liberal settlement of claims for compensation will ever be entertained or countenanced by them. of application for shares may be had at the offices Forme of the Comany, o r of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned in full. INDEPENDENT FIRE COMPANY (Limited). The Directors of this Company have much pleasure in announcing that, in consequence of the suostantial and marked support wh.ch has been accorded tne Company by wharfingers a c d numerous commercial firms in the City, the undertaking may be c onsidered as of certain success, and the ,iLkRE LIST will be CLOS ED in a few days. By order, GEO. D. HOD US, Secretary. 29, Nicholu-lanc, April 3 , 1164, No. 22,412. 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The Directors of the Great Eastern Rai way Company hereby give notice that, in accordance with the Act, the THIRD CALL of £2lOl. per Spare is payable on or before MONDAY, the 23d May, 1861, at the Union Bank of London, Princes-street, Mansion-house, London ; or at Mersrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London. It will be necessary for the holder of the Scrip to present the same to the Bankers at the time of making payment, in order to have the receipt properly filled up. The Five per Cent. interest will be paid on the Ist of March, and on the let of September, in each year. By Order, J. B. nWEN, Secretary. Bishopagate Terminus, 14th April, !S&L T HE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CREDIT COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the "Companies' Act, 1162," by which the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares. Capital £2,000,000, in 40,003 shares of £5O each. First issue 20,000 shares. Deposit £ t per share on applica tion, and £4 on allotment, of which 10,0,:.0 shares have been already subscribed t r. Subsequent calls not to exceed £2 10s , and at interva l s of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £li per share; but as the operations of the Company require additional capi tal, further issues of shares will be made, a preference being given to the then existing shareholders. DIRECTORS. John Barrow, EFq., Normanton Hall, Director Amsterdam Water Works Company. Joseph Bray, Esq , Pyrgo Park, Romford. Ferdinand Ja ques, I , sq., Banker, Berl n. Charles E. Mangles, Esq., Chairman West India Royal Mail Company. George Palmer Robinson, Esq., Director Alliance Bank. George Sheward, Esq., Leinster-square, Bayswater, Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., Chairman Discount Corporation. George Barnard Townsend, Esq., Director South Eastern of Portu,al Rai way Company. BANKERS. The Alliance Bank, Lothbury, London ; Brown'sbuildings, Ban k, a and King-Areet, Manchester. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Desborrugh, Young, and Desborough, 9, Sise-lane. Messrs. Swift and Co., 32, Great George-street, Westminster. BROKERS. Messrs, Dezoete and Gorton, 2, Austin-friars. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Mr. Chester Earles. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 2, Copthall-chambers, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. The Directors having received the support of eminent foreign capitalists and banking establishments, and the co operation of many of the leading firms in this country con nected with public works, are already in a position io an nounce that they have secured a business which will of itself yield a large return on the capital. The general objects of the company are the same as those of other compan es of a kindred nature which have been lately established in this country, and which, by the judicious employment of capital, hive been enabled to secure for the shareholders such large dividends. Prospectuses may be obtained at the temporary offices of the company, or of the brokers. c'-~a~ * ••• 7 4 , 10 • • .••••, ••••- • T • ••,.• • Vl'. • 1:,• 7 1 ) Y . • `S tr ,l 4 • ' *, 114-41 , • I t . Ls., I • t" " rtl, as • L. • ..- 7 • 41 111('' - - 14. 0-ts I • 0 "4q.4 1.4 .160 " (14 • THE SUN, LONDON, NON DAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1864. GARIBALDI FUND, for the purooßA of securing a permanent income for GENERAL GARI BALDI and his family after him The Duke of •UTHER LAND, Chairman. CHAS. SEELY, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman. lion. A. KINNAIRD, M.P., Treasurer. Contributions maybe paid to the bankers, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., I, Pall Mall East, and communications to be addnssAl to the Secretary, Arthur 11. 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THE THAMES IRON WORKS, SHIP BUILDING, ENGINEERING, AND DRY DOCK COSIPANY (Limited(. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHARE CER TIFICATES in this Company will be ready for delivery at the Temporary Offices of the Company, No. IS, King-street, Cheapside (or BlackwaT, on MONDAY, the 25th of April instant, in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts for Deposits, F. J. DIVERS, Secretary. / _ PRICE .4d. STAMPED;....Sd. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON SECRETARIES AND THEIR SUBORDINATES.—The relation in which the political chiefs and subordinates of departments stand towards each other has always been anoma lous. It is understood that the subordinate has no share in the deliberations of his chief, and can in no degree affect the measures taken, if he happens to differ from that chief. In spite of this, it is also understood that he defends the acts of his chief in the branch of the Legislature in which he sits. This function in itself is hard enough. It is not pleasant for a man to hav e t o p rove t h at to b e rise which he himself thinks to be foolish, or to deliver a eulogium upon a policy which in his own heart he is exe- crating: But this resignation of Mr. Lowe esta blishes a precedent which will add very seriously to the liabilities of the luckless subordinate. He must now not only be advocate, but whipping-boy. If a blunder is made in the officer, ho must go out. His chief, who has made the blunder, may remain in the serene heights of the aristocratic cmpyrean, despis ing the convulsions which agitate the surface of popular opinion or of representative assemblies But the subordinate, whose share in the policy im• pugned has at most been consultative, most suffer for measures which have not proceeded from his authority, and in which (as in the present case) he may possibly not concur. Such a system has no doubt its convenience. It combines the gratification of parliamentary indignation with the permanence of responsible officials. Under-Secretaries and Vice- Presidents may be looked upon for the future as a species of nine-pins, set up for the Opposition to bowl down. If the Opposition carry a censure, the Under-Secretary resigns. If they fail in it, he remains. It is a perfectly harmless pastime. It amuses them, and it does not hurt the Cabinet. The Ministers who are really responsible for what has been done repose in undisturbed com placency upon the comfortable benches of the House of Lords, and content themselves with pass ing from time to time a eulogium upon the subor dinate who has been bowled over. But there is no change in Cabinet offices; for Cabinet Ministers who are in the House of Lords are beings of too exalted a nature to pay attention to votes of cen sure which a coarse popular assembly may pass. It is only upon such a theory that the selection of Mr. Lowe to be the solitary victim can be justified. The censure of the House of Commons was levelled at the office, and therefore at its chief ; and the im putation of having tampertd, for political purposes, with the information laid before Parliament, while it has been fully removed from Mr. Lowe, rests.in undiminished weight upon Lord Granville's fame. But Lord Granville, sitting in the House of Lords, treats offences solemnly charged upon him in the Journals of the House of Commons as idle scolding. He is the guardian of his own reputation. There is no doubt that the doctrine of vicarious resigna tion which he is now introducing has its con veniences. It is a marvellous device for reconcil ing the official tenacity of a censured Minister with the doctrine of Parliamentary responsibility. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE PROBABLE RESULT OF THE DANO-GERMAN WAR.—Oa Wednesday the representatives of all the Powers, parties to the Treaty of 1852, met by appointment at Downing street, the Envoy chosen by the Federal Diet alone being absent. Whereupon, the representatives of Prussia and Austria refusing to act, a resolution was taken to adjourn till Monday next. Should Baron von Beust choose to assert the dignity of his clients still further, by again omitting to ap pear, we should not be at all surprised if a new pretext were devised for delay in commencing de liberations. Europe has stupidly looked on for four months, during which the occupation and conquest of the Duchies has been completed by overwhelming force. Herr von Bismark now de clares, in a circular despatch addressed to the repre sentatives of Prussia at foreign Courts, and ostentatiously published the day after the fall of Dybbol, that Prussia considers the Treaty of 1852 as absolutely at an end ; and that its terms are wholly inadmissible as the groundwork of future negociations. There was only wanting this last touch to complete the story of insolent and perfidious aggression. Before crossing the Eider, end long itter its frontier banks bad been paseerd by the invaders, Austria and Prussia vehemaitly asserted that all they wanted was to enforce the terms of that European compact. There were some of us who disbelieved these assurances,and wbo said so at the time. Diplomacy put on its spectacles and conned over and over again the terms of these assurances, in which, with its usual sagacity, it professed to be much comforted. 11/ea, where are these pledges now ? Unhappy D.:Tmark herself does not any longer think them worth insisting on. She has naturally lost all faith in promises and moral guarantees and so forth. Her heart is still right within her, and sho clings with undying con stancy to the eventual vindication of right and justice. But she has been maimed and broken so terribly by overwhelming might, and she feels her self to have been so deserted by those who might, if they would, have served her without striking a blow, that it is no marvel if she looks without hope or trust to the results of diplomatic cogitations. Her eyes are fixed elsewhere, and on the day when a new map of Dano.German frontiers shall be settled and initialled by the Great Powers, as a peaceful adjustment of the present difficulty, the beginning will have been made of that national movement which holds out the only real hope of compensation to the Danes for their loss of territory on the Eider. Sooner or later the various regions peopled by the Scandinavian race were certain to;be united under one Government; and from the nature of the case that government must be one essentially popular. — The believers in the theory of dynasties as opposed to that of nationalities, ought to have striven to preserve the severalty of Denmark as an ancient kingdom. But blindness has fallen upon them ; and looking at the course of recent events, and the darkness of the future, we own that we see no probability of their being able to retrieve their signal error. THE " SPECTATOR" ON IMPERTINENCE AS A PARLIAMENTARY WEAPON.—Oi rEpl HaXimprov, the knot of young men of forty or thereabouts whom Lord Palmerston, in default of a following, puts into office and protects as if they belonged to him, have amidst many differences one quality in com mon. They all know the value of insolence as a weapon in political warfare—all affect, even when personally simple people, the hauteur which lies very near the root of the character of their chief. All entertain the conviction that the ability to snub can be made a social breastplate, and that an off. hand address compounded of quickness and imper tinence suggests in its victims a sense of reserved power abiding in the assailant. When the house sneers at Mr. Layard, he tells members to answer instead of interrupting him, and keep silence till he has done. When an inconvenient question is asked of Mr. Cowper, he taunts the house with its inabi lity to control expenditure, or build anything which is not ugly, and bids his opponents to let him alone, for the department will go on a great deal better unassisted than if they persist in interfering. Mr. Lowe's regular practice when assailed was to de scribe his assailant as a rather unscrupulous fool, leading a knot of persons who either knew nothing about the matter or had a sinister motive in press ing their own view. There is no doubt a certain effectiveness in this style, as well as a certain justi fication for employing it. Englishmen of the better class when excited are often brusque, and political impertinence, particularly if clever impertinence, usually suggests at once courage and frankness, and earnestness in the matter under discussion. It implies, too, when used by an official, special know ledge, the existence of a quantity of facts with which the speaker is familiar, which are essential to the question, and which his opponent knows nothing whatever about. Lord Palmerston almost always makes this the basis of his impertinence—a weapon he uses with real shill—tem of Mr. Cobden's ig norance of " politics," or refuses to give up his in formants, because if he did "he should soon kno w as little of the matter in hand as the honourable member." The average English mind, too—and the mind of the collective louse of Commons is simply the average English mind a little puffed with prosperity—does not easily distinguish between wit and impertinence, has, indeed, invented a word— " chaff,' which is peculiar to itself, and which ex pressos the perfect combination of the two. The to quoque always strikes a cabman or the gallery of the Victoria as witty, and so it does the Muse of Com mons, which receives Mr, 03borne's admiration of Mr. La 3 and " in his new capacity E s an advocate for common decency" with roars of hearty laughter. The victim, too, is very apt, unless a very ready as well as a very strong man, to quail and feel himself beaten, at all events for the time. slost men are cowards when isolated, and the laughter around—laughter at the victim as well as the joke—inspires a sense of isolation. We re member one almost Perfect instance of this confusion. Mr. Darby Griffith, with his usual in quisitiveness, one night asked the Foreign Sectatary if it were true, as the newspapers said, that Victor Emmanuel had crossed his frontier for an interview A with the Emperor. Lord John Russell, without B ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that there are TWO VACANCIES in the Direction of this Bank, occasioned by the retirement of Samuel John Cummins and Francis Le Breton, Esquires. which w.ll be filled up at the ensuing Yearly General Sleeting. 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THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL COMPANY (Limited) invite Subscriptions f,,r Shares in the ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY (Limitedl, For FIRE and MARINE INSURANCES. Incorporated under the Companirs' Act, 1 , ,62 ' whereby the liability of each Member is strictly limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital £1,00,00 1 , divided into 20,0 0 Shares of .£5O each. First Issue, 10,100 Shares. Deposit on application, £1 per Share, and £4 on allotment. No call to exceed £5 per Share, not to be made until the expiration of three months from the incorppoation of the Company, nor at intervals of less than three months. It is not contemp ated, however, to call up more than £5 per Share beyond the deposit and payment on al otment. DIAECTORS. Osvold H. Colven, Esq. (Messrs. John Nickols and CO.), Seething-lane. E. 'l'. Gourley, Esq., Shipowner, London and Sunderland. Angus M'Kenzie, Esq., Merchant, Old Broad-street, Director of the Oriental Commercial Company. Joseph Mll , sttr, Esq., Merchant, Easteheap, Director of the National Financial Company. P. W. Spence, Esq. (Messrs. E. J. Spence and Co.), Pinners' Hall. Old Broaa-street. Char es Rudd Tatham, Esq. (Messrs. Tatham and Co.), Padding-lane. C. P. V ,rami, Esq„ Merchant, 1, Shorter's-court, Throgmor ton-street. William Beattie, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel J Croudar.e, William Kin' - , Req., Also Directors G. Gold smith li rby, Esq.,Managing Direetor, of the Albert James N chols, Esq., Life Assurance Wm. Page T. Phillips, Esq., I Company. T. Stevenson, Beef, Robert Wnitworin, Esq., BANKERS. The Alliance Bank, Lot hbury. The London t.nd Westminster Bank, St. James's-square. AGENTS. The Na' 'nal Financial Company (Limited). BROKERS. Messrs. Pa:tridge and Greenfield, Thro,lmorton-street. SOLICTORS. Messrs. Mercer and Me cer, Mincing-lane. AUDITORS. Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and Co., Lothbury. SECRETARY (rno TEAL) L 1,14 -Gentle, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 12, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street, City. This Company is est bitched in order to afford to the agents and connections of the Albert Life Assurance Company, founded in 1838, an opportunity to combine the transaction of Fire and Marine Insurance with that of Lite Assurance. The Albert Life Assurance Com; any has a share capital of £500,0u0 fully subscribed, and has an income from premiums of upwards of £250,000 par aunum, and during the last three years has issued new policies of assurance to the amount of £2,573,979, the premiums D E upon which amount to £108,556. F IRE PARTMENT. The Agents, Policyholders, and Sha.eholders of the Albert Life Company necessarily form a conneAion of the most influential character for a Fire and Marine Insurance Com pany. The annual increase in the wealth of the country and in that de.t , c.iption of property known as " Insurable Property," has suggested the formation of t-evcral new Fire Insurance Offices, but the Directors of this Company believe that in very few instances has a Fire Company started with the same chances of success as attend the introduction of this. The Company will have the advantage of the co - op eration of a trained and pertectly organised system of ats, awl the Directors submit, therefore, th .t there there is a c ertainty Of securing almost at once a large and profitable bus uess. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having intimated his in tention to reduce the duty one-half on sttck in trade, a large additional numb :r of fire insurances will, no doubt, be effected by persons who have hitherto been deterred from insuring for the full value of their stock by reason of the heavy duty. The following table shows the present value of the shares of those Fire Companies which are in alliance with Life Com antes : STRATFORD-ON-AVONT TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL. PRESIDENT. R1,711t Hon. the Earl of CARLISLE, K.G. MONDAY EVENING, at Seven, a GRAND CONCERT of MUSIC, associated wit:, the words from Simtksperc.—Dime. l'arepa, Mme. Saintou-Dolby, Mine. Arabella Goddard, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. G. Perren, Mr. Santley. Orchestra of 120 Instruments. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Tickets, 25 ed. Reserved Seats, ss. and 108 ed. TUESDAY MORNING, April 26, EXCURSION TO CHARLECOTE. Tickets ss. In the Evening, at 7 o'clock, TWELFTH NIGHT wilt be represented by the Company of the Theatre , Royd, Haymarket. Orsini, lgr. Howe—Sebas tian, Mr. Weathersby—Antonio, Mr. Braid—Roberto, Mr. Walter Gordon—Carlo, Mr. Cla“—Valentine, Worrel— Sir Toby Belch, Mr. Rogers— Sir Andrew, Mr. Buckstone Fabian. Mr. W. Farren—Clown, Mr. Compton-I'riest, Mr. Cullenford—Officers, Mr. Coe an Mr. James —Olivia, Miss 11. Lindley —Viols, Miss Louisa Angel—Maria, Mrs. E. Fitz william. After the Comedy, Mr. Sothern(Lord Dundreary) will ap pear in a new Farce. Tickets S L-Iteserved Seats, 10$. 6d. and 21s. On WEDNESDAY SIORNING, April 27, A SHAKE SPEAREAN READING. Tictuts, 2s. 6d.—Reserved Seats , ss. In the Evening, in consequence of the withdrawal of Mr. Fechter, Mr. Vining, of the Roynl Princess's Theatre, ha, kindly undertaken to put two of b hikespeare's Plays upon the Stage. At 7 o'clock will be produced the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. The character of Juliet by Mdlle. Stella Collas, supported by Mr. IL Marston, Mr. J. Nelson. Mr. Vinino, Mr. D. Fisher, and Mr. Forrester. After which the COMADY OF hattolls. The Antipholi by Mr. Vining and Mr. Ne son. The two Dromios by the brothers Webb, supported by Miss C. Carson, Miss H. Howard, and Miss E. Barnett. Tickets ss.—Reserved Setts, 108.6 d. and 21s. The Hamlet tickets will be available for this Evening's Entertainments. On THURSDAY MORNING, April 28, in the Shake spearean Rooms, a CONCERT of Instrumental Music and Glees from Shekesperean Plays.—Ticke s, 2s. 6d.—Reserved Seats, ss. In the Evening at Seven, AS YOU LIKE IT will be represented: Rosalind, Mrs. Hermann Vezin (late Mrs. Charles Young)—Celia, Miss Rebecca Powell.—Phoebe, Miss Bufton—Audry, Miss Charlotte Saunders.—The Duke, Mr. J. Bennett—Jaques. Mr.Creswick.—Amiens, Mr.W. 11. Comings. —Orlando, Mr.W.Farren—Adam, Mr. Chippendale. Touch stone, Mr. compton—Le Beau, Mr. Belford'—Oliver, Mr. It. Dolman,—Wrestler, Mr 11. Payne. The play produced under the superintendence of Mr. H. Creswick. Tickets, ss.—Re served Seats, Os. 6d. and 21s. On FRIDAY Evening, April 29th, "GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL." Ticke s (by wuchers), 21s. A series of Popular Entertainments in the following week. nrinz the Festival there will be an exhibition in the Town Hall of many of the well known Portraits of Shakes peare and eminent Actors of his plays. The Great Western, North-Western, and other Railway Com,anies will run a ecial trains during the Festival ; and at the close of each night's performances, trains will leave for London Birmingham, Malvern, learning - ton, &c. R turn Tickets will be available trom Friday the 22d, to Saturday the 30th. Tickets, Programmes, &c., may be obtained at 2, Exeter Hall, London ; and at the Festival Ticket Office, New-pace, Stratford-upon-Avon. The Official Programme, published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, an.: Galpin, con' aining full particulars of all matters connected with the Festival, toge her with a Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood of Stratford-upon-Avon, is now ready. This minty be oh ained at the Ticket Office, and from all Booksellers, price ls. m. W. S. WOODIN'S ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. and BACHELOR'S BOX, an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Coaring-cross, EVERY EVENING, at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at three.— Stalls, and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls. A Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hall from eleven to five. Next Morning Performance, Saturday, April 3), at three. T 6 E OXFO R B, , OXFORD STREET, w. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and success ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAUST, with augmented band and chorus; also THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry It. Bishop, supported by the following talente4 artistes :—Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell, VI , almsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, ,te. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. To-morrow Evening, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND SOR, by Otto Nicolal. Comedy by UNSWORTH and EUGENE, Mr. T. Maclagan, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the .Itivenile comedienne), &c., &o. Admission—Area, Gd. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. ed. • CANTERBURY HALL. THIS EVENING, PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS! with novel effects, registered by C. Morton and J. IL Weston. "The figure of Fame, winged and trumpeted, passing and repassing through the Magic Fountain, Fs so complete an Illusion that it wellnigh ceases to be illuso•y."--Illorning Star,. Feb. 19. Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Tn addition to tlio usual Entertainments of thn establish ment, supported by the whole of the talented company, in cluding Arthur Lloyd, Miss Nelly AIL T. Maclagan, G. W. Tester, &c. ,to Also will be produced, with alterations and Improvements in production, the New Illusion, surpassing anything yet attempted. entitled TILE TERCEN vh:NAIIX ; or,a N r,iirr WITH SHAKSPERE, written express'yby W. le. Vander yell, Esq., in which Mr. W. Randall will re-app 7ar. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. Open every Evening. ROYAL A.L SPECIAL NOTICE. II AMBRA.- THIS EVENING (Monday), the 25th instant, there will be a GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL in kin= of the SIIAKESPERIAN FESTIVAL. ROYAL AL II Am BR A.- GRAND SHARESPERIAN PANCY DRESS BALL THIS (Monday) EVENING, the 25th. Prices of Admission—Ladies' Tickets, 55.: Gentlemen. 10s.; Double Ticket (Lady and Gentleman), 12s. ad. Admission to Balxmy, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 108. 6d. Dancing to commence at Half-past Ten. ROYAL AL RAM BR A.— Tuts (xfondayi EVENING, in eonsequenm of the a GRAND SHAKESPERIAN FANCY BALL, the Perfon ances of the Royal Cirque of the _Netherlands will be SUSPENDED for THIS NIGIIT ONLY. panies : A cii g . 1!4 ..5.1 - D OYAL ALHA.MBRA.— G. , Annual g p. 4 ti g= g It CONTINUED SUCCE'S of the CIRQUE, acknow- Enaland. MORNING Name of Office. ,i, gLI Dividend c., l' .21 2 ', El lecl , red to be the best nrodueed in ~. °id paid. .AN E CAS itI NV E ED V N EN E I S N D G A , I' fr rC 4 and SATURDAY, at .= 0 ,-, cn 44 ve4 at Half-past Seven. ,----- t.b4 t; ' '''' ' I 1 4'" 4 a."' I T ' w E o l{F o 9 cl l 2 ,-- .£ E e.' £ £ I L I 113 OYAL ALHAMBRA ; HE RIBBON. Sun..._.. lOO 10 06i per ct. & bonus 220 0, 2100 JIN B r illi a nt EQUEST RIAN (-, .F.N.E of he' Young U n i on C oun ty lOO 10 04 0 per ct 280 li) 1300 Ladies, enttled THE *RIDE I 'OR T ,86 01 763 Prices of Admission — Privale Boxes (to hold six), 215.; Pit and Pro- Imperial 360 I Live , pool &London 20 2 024 per c•. 11 10 475 menade, Is.; Upper Balcony, 6d TA 1 —( :"C Office open from ten London 25 12 10 20 per ct. 95 0 433 to four. North British Royal Exchange 50 6 510 per ct. do bonus 19 0 204 ItirADANIE TUSSAII9's AtIasHISTORICAL Liw 100 2 10,11 per ct. 5 0 100 'IL GALLERY; establishes 28 Years at the Bazaar, il.lirpr-street. MADAME TUSSAII9's HISTORICAL GALLERY; establishes 28 Years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. RECENT ADDlTlONS.—President Lincoln and Presi dent Joan. in magnificent co stumes o f the period (1309); and in the Chamber of Physiognomy is a full-length model of Cleo. Victor Townley. Davis ; Ancient Effigie s of Henry IV. and his Queen 10 at night. Admittance, is. ; extra r ooms, od. Open from 11 in the miming tin L w MARINE DEPARTMENT. Notwithstanding the recent establishment of several ma rine insurance companies, and the extensive business they have acquired, there is ample room for the sate and profitable employment of capital in this direction. The vast increase in the shipping interest of the United Kingdom, together with the growing feeling in favour of the secui ity afforded by Joint Stonic Companies as compared with private Underwriters, point to the opening which exists for this department of the tompany's operations. The services of an able and experienced Underwriter will be secured, and a large business can at once be obtained for the Company. The following statistics of a few of the present Marine In surance Companies show the present value of the Shares of those Companies, and the highly successful nature of such business : I .. • . . 11 Ag A as ....{ 4 t. ) , I ' g s. Present Name Of °Mee. cii-c , Cd o d ' K Premium 4- 4 .4 ..1 Pl ca -.a al 572 3 , 2 8 per Cent. Pl 4 44 .Z 1:1.,04 —,--- £ £ a. I X s. d. ' Marine 1836 100 18 0 96 0 0 433 Ocean Marine 1859 25 5 0 19 10 0 1 293 London 1720 r-5 12 10 48 0 0 284 Thames and Mersey 188 0 20 2 0.6 17 6I 244 Indemnity Alliance London and Pro vincial Commercial Union 1861 50 50,9 10 0 93 English & Scottish, 1E63 100 5016 0 0 1 20 London and Cate-1 doni an ! 1863 25 501 6 0 0 20 In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned in full. Should a less number of Shares be al lotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made avail able towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. Forms of Applieations for Shares may be obtained from the National Finanoal Company (Limited), 12, King's Arms yard Moorgate•stree;, B.C. ; or the Brokers or Solicitors of the Company. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Albert Insurance Company (Limited!. Gentl. men, Having paid to your bankers, the sum of £ , being a deposit of LI per Share on shares in the above company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to accept such shares, or any less number you may allot 'o me ; and I agree I o pay the deposit on allotment. and to sign the Articles of Association of the Company when required, and I authorise r.O to I,.sert my name on the Register of Members for the number of snares allotted to me, Usual Signature Name in full Residence trofession or business Date May, 1834, TEETH. —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations ree.-B,Grosvenor street, Bond-area, W, 1:1.3 t 39, Bennett'a-hill, Dir p4aglana. ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street, Piccadilly, IS OPEN EVERY EVENIN G. Dnrinf,r the eveninz an unparalleled repertoire of Dance bis Performed by the oele er. Doors Open at Half - past 8, continence at 9. Argylled Selections Band, and f o Overtures, rtyn n. i m Admission la. Music,at Manager, M. GRENET. 10. ttli W a 1 1 T a r s and 'lnfant; Eng and Shaw, the Siam ese Twins ; and etrana 41A, MADDOX-STREET , REGENT -STREET, W. T HE LONDON ANATO M ICAL MUSEUM, may be seen the Ast e s o ; pe n Bushmandai l y f r a o n m d I W O l e l ; upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Preparations, &o. —ptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission O , One Shilling (tor Gentlemen only). MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, TRADERS, AND EXECUTORS. ACCOUNTS arranged and adjusted, and Balance Sheets prepared.—Financial operations organised and Banking fa cilities arranged.—Cash Advance.s made on Trade Stock, Dock Warrants, and other Securities, and Sales effected.— The Agency of Provincial and Foreign Firms undertaken. Address, Messrs. BANKES and Co., Accountants, 20, Devereux-court, Strand, London, W.C. MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber well-park. Address—BOTT and J A cxsox, "Man of the World" Wino Stores, George-street, Camberwell - park , London. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Tndlzestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Tticir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at ts. l i d. snd 25. Pd. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. "DIGS! PIGS! PIGS!--INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, and in every county in England, IGB (Id per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 1 cwt. bar cy or any meal. Delivered free in Lon don. Established 1868.--TIiOMAS J'EAItCE, Manager, 6i3, Lant-street, Southwark. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre oared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. -cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and dyer complaints, indigestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, Sm. 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Translated by JOHN ANSTER; M.R.1.A., Regius l'rofessor of Civil Law in the University of Dablin. *** To be followed shortly by a New Edition, uniformly printed, of Dr. ANSTER'S Translation of the FIRST PART. London : Longman, Green, and Co., Paternoster-row. T"E QUARTERLY REVIEW, Na ccxxx., is Published THIS DAY. CONTENTS. T. Prospe^ts of the Confederates. 11. Pompeii P. , st and Present. 111. Emre of Mexico. IV. Sir William Napier. V. Shakspeare and his Sonnets. VI. The Privy Council Judgment. Vii. The Foreign Policy of England. John Murray, Albemarle-street. NEW WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS, In Monthly Parts, uniform with the Original Editions of " Pickwick," "David Copperfield," &c. On Saturday, April 3Qth, will be Published Part 1., price of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND ; By CHARLES DICKENS. To be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts. With Illustrations by MAncus STONE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. To-day is published, price ls., A VOICE FROM DERBY TO BEDLAM. " Audi alteram partem." London: Robert Hardwick, 192, Piccadilly. Now ready, price 3d., NEW PATRIOTIC SONG, G ARIBALDI at the Opera of " Masaniello." By R. N. DUNBAR. - . London : Robert ilardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. BARBARA HOME, the New Novel, by MARGARET BLOUNT, is now ready, in 3 vols., at all the Libraries. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVEL. BY M. E. BRADDON. On May 10, at all Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., HE N R Y DUN B AR. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," &c. ** Subscribers to Circulating Libraries should give imme diate orders for this work to insure early copies. London: John Maxwell and Co., 132, Fleet-street. This Day, Never before Published, price 25., LEAH, THE JEWISH MAIDEN. *,,* Whoever has seen Miss Bateman in "Leah" should read this story, upon which the play is founded. Also, uniform with the above, price 2s. each, 1. BEL DEMONIO. j 2. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. N.B.—The popular Dramas are founded upon these novels. 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Islington.—Two Eight-roomed Houses. MR. ANDREW HIND will SELL, by , AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, May 17, 1864, at 12 for 1 o'clock, in two lots, the de.irable lIOUSE•4, Nos. 3 and 5, Elmore-street, Lower-road, Islington, each containing eight rooms and washhouse, with gardens. May be viewed by cards from the Auctioneer only, and particulars, with conditions of sale, had at the piincipat Inns in the neighbourhood ; at the Auction Mart ; and at the Auctioneer's Office, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. Barnet.—A Pair of Semi-detached Villas. MR. ANDREW HIND will SELL, by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, May 17,1834, at 12 for 1 o'clock, in two lots, the convenient Freehold Seven roomed COTTAGES, Nos. 1 and 2, Lancaster-roa 3 , New Barnet, within two minutes' walk of a station and half an hour's ride from town. Let to respectable yearly tenants at £44 per annum, but possession of one may be had. May be viewed by permission of the tenants, and particu lars, with conditions of sale, had at the Railway Tavern ; of C. Parke, Eeq., solicit..r, 37, Moorqate-street ; at the Auction Mart ; and at the Auolioneer's Ofllces, corner of Little Carter lane, St. Paul's. BUSINESSES. -Mr, ANDREW HIND'S APRIL LIST, containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., gratis. Letters enclose stamp. Particu lars entered free. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. UNDER an ASSIGNMENT.—To GROCERS. Mr. ANDREW BIND has for immediate DISPOSAL the Bossiness, Fixtures, Utensils, and Stock of a G ROCER. 5, St. Germaine-terrace, Lee, Kent. Good shop and eight rooms. Rent, £5O. Price moderate. Offices, I,LittleCarter lane. BERLIN WOOL, FANCY STATIONERY, and TOBACCO.—Mr. ANDREW lIIND has for DISPOSAL the above, situate in one of the best positions. N. Doing a snug business, and oapab:e of much improvement. Price for fittings, fixtures. &0., £lOO. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's, COFFEE -HOUSES.-Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE an old-established BUSINESS, near St. Paul's. Coffee-room, bar, kitchen, and six rooms above. Rent £33, Lease 16 years. Trade £l2 per week. Price £l4O. Also the following:—Southwark, £75 ; Oxford-street (near), 300 ; Is'ington, £6O ; Shoreditch, £2OO, So. Offices, 1, Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. DR. ROBERTS' POOR MAN'S FRIEND is confidently recommended to the Public as an unfail ing remedy for wounds of every description, burns, scalds, chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, sore and inflamed eyes, fix. Sold in pots. ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 1 s., and 225. each. Also his PI LUL/E ANTISCROPIIUL/E, confirmed by sixty years' experience to be one of the best alterative medicines ever offered to the public. They form a mild and superior Family Aperient, that may be taken at all times without confine ment or change of diet. Sold in boxes, is. lid., 2s. id., 48. 6d., lls., and 225. each. Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and Barnicott, Bridport, by the London houses, and retail by all respectable medicine vendors in the United Kingdom and Colonies. pRizE ME D A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, Ste., &c., To the Queen and the Ptince of Wales. (Established 1770.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn,.l com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with latted Wicks, patented.. 7s, 2d. per lb Ordinary quality .. .• :s. ed. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. .. .. Is. sd. per 11,. ' Second quality .. is. per lb. Third quality .. .. ls. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders - of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South 3101 ton-street, Grosvenor-square. Mimi actory— Kensington (Established 1731). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture Wax Candles for the use of the Altar EMBARRASSED in Town and Country 31 . should read "THE PLAIN GUIDE TO BANK RUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS," showing what can be legally done, and the exact cost. To be had gratis and post free of Mr. Wetherfield, Solicitor of the Court. 25, Moorgate street, Bank. . _ —Debts recovered on commission without law ea• prucea to ellento. .v_ ,. ___,-L._._., iN EWs rAp ER rising, turned his head and roa re d a t th ,top 6 ;, voice, " No." The reply had not a trace Psrlt.,„, the impertinence was so near it that (a - -; 4, 1 31 bubbled over with noisy pleasure, an d w a s ter I • • tempered for the whole remainder of th e evenin If" IS there is any real wit behind it or any real power ac companyingit, impertinence mast, with a mixed audi ence, be allowed to be effective. Nor is it easy to say what other weapon a Minister would find so easy to his hand. Real wit is a betterdefence,but every states man cannot have real wit, and since the days of Sir- Robert Peel it has been rather a scarce quality among officials. His followers were not witty, though there is humour in Mr. Gladstone, and a sort of sharpness in the Duke of Newcastle. Im passibility is an Equally good defence, but it does not tell much in debate except when exhibited by a very good man indeed, and officials want a form of retort which the country can read next dey. Some weapon they must use to keep off the bores, and the people with private intcreste and the mea with crotchets, and the members of the Derby Griffith stamp who otherwise would worry them to death, and most of whom when smashed wA`r an argument say, "Tie right honourable ,gentleman has stated precisely what I wanted to elicit," and sit down as radiant as if they had 'even applauded. A Minister to be useful must be dan gerous, and if he can only be so by being imperti- Lent he cannot be said to be very blameable. A porcupine is not a nice beast, but still one does not condemn his use of his quills as in any way im moral, and if members will tease people like Sir Charles Wood or Mr. Layard, why, they know what to expect. „” ~-,~~ Naval and Military Intelligence. - 4.- THE NAVY. The official trial of the double-screw steam launch, which has been constructed and fitted at Chatham Dockyard, as a tender for her Majesty's screw steamer Bombay, flagship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot, C,8., took place at Chatham on Saturday. The trial shows the vast superiority of those steamers fitted with the double-screw in manceuvring, turning, and steering, generally, to those furnished with the single propeller. The vessel experimented upon is 42ft. in length, with a breadth of beam of lift., and she has been constructed en tirely under the supervision of the dockyard officials. Her engines have been manufactured by Messrs. John Penn and Sons. They are nominally of 3 horse power, but being on the highspressure prin ciple they can be worked up to ten times that power. The entire machinery occupies a space of 6ft. by 4ft., and the engines are so constructed that the whole machinery can be bodily lifted out of the launch and placed on the deck of the vessel to which she is at• tached. The weight of the whole is 3 tons 17cwt. 2qrs. 201 b. There are four cylinders, each with a diameter of 4in., and a length of stroke of 6in. The connecting rod is 12in. in length, and the diameter 11; the piston rod is Zia. The diameter of the crank axles is llin„ and the diameter of the screw shaft the same. The :screw propeller is 31ft. in length. The fire-grate is 2ft. by 2ft. and the length of each of the boiler tubes, of which there are 19, 3ft. 3in., and their external diameter 21in. The total fire-bar surface is sft. ; surface of flue, 21ft. ; and surface of tubes, 40ft. ; the total heating sur face is 61ft. The two screws are 4-bladed, and have a diameter of 2ft., the set of the pitch being 3ft. 41in. Each screw is driven by its own indepen dent shafting, which thus enables both to be worked in contrary directions. The quantity of coals on board was 13 cwt. At starting the draught of water, both fore and aft, was 2ft. 6in. From the above figures it will be seen that the engines are probably the smallest ever supplied to one of her Majesty's Tussle, nevertheless the results achieved were somewhat astonishing, and appeared to take all the spectators by surprise. At 10 o'clock the screw launch steamed from the dockyard pier, having on board Captain Stewart, C. 8., superin tendent of the dockyard; Capt. Colin Campbell, of the Bombay ; Captain Stokes, Queen's harbour. master ; Mr. Thornton and Mr. Hutchens, master shipwrights, and others of the officials. The engines were in charge of Mr. Wiggell, from:Messrs. Penn's establishment, who superintended their working. Prior to the launch undergoing the most impor tant portion of her day's trials Captain Stewart directed her to be taken to the most crowded portion of the harbour, in order to test her mar ceuv ring capabilities in and out among the vessels, boats, and other craft about the dockyard. At this time there was a pressure of steam of upwards of GOlb, and the screws each making upwards of 200 revolutions per minute. Before she had been out any great distance it soon became evident that the twin-screw principle enabled a vessel to be almost independent of her rudder. Acting upon this Capt. Stewart boldly directed the tiller of the rudder to be removed, and henceforward the vessel was steered solely by her screws. With a strong flood tide running, the vessel was manceavred by means of her screws with as much ease as when her rudder was brought into use, and, indeed, the remarkable ease with whioh she was turned round boats, buoys, and other objects pointed out by Capt. Stewart, as well as the surprising steaming powers of the minia ture craft, elicited the admiration no less than the astonishment of all on board, as well as of the pera sons who watched her progress from the dockyard and pier. After fully demonstrating to the officials the steaming and steering capacities of the screw launch she went alongside the dockyard, where some slight alterations were effected in the machinery, after which the miniature vessel's head was turned down the harbour, and a run taken towards the Nore, during which numerous experiments were made in steering the launch solely by means of her screws, with the most complete success. The time occupied in the run from Chatham Dockyard to the Camber was two hours, which would give an ave rage speed of rather over six knots per hour. The boat was also tried in making circles, when with the port screw going ahead at fall speed and the starboard screw working astern the circles were made as nearly as possible on a pivot, the average time occupied being 1 . 247 of a minute with the engines making 310 revolutions per minute. During the run to and from the Nora the engines worked with the utmost freedom and regularity, the boilers giving a pressure of 601 b. of steam, the average number of revolutions of the screws being 320 per minute. Altogether, the trials were deemed a complete success as establishing the superiority of the double screw principle: The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Thrupp, ar rived at Spithead yesterday, fromDevonport, with men paid off from the Nilo. //- THE ARMY. The ship Winchester, 1,157 tons, Capt. G. V. Gideon, belonging to Mr. G. Marshall of London, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Calcutta, after a fine run of 95 days, with the following officers and troops on board :—Capt. Shiffner, 54th Regiment, in military charge ; Surg. Sparrow, in medical charge; Capt. Wilkinson and Lieut. Spencer, 82d Regiment; Lieut. Cargill, Bengal Artillery, and Mrs. Cargill ; Lieut. Gwyn, 20th Regiment ; En* sign Ware, 91st Regiment, and Mrs, Ware, Lieut. Massin, Bengal artillery. 174 time-expired men from various regiments, 54 invalided men, 12 insane men, 10 military convicts, four soldiers' wives and children. The whole were disembarked from the s hip on Saturday under the superintendence of Colonel Shadwell, Assist.-Quartermaster-General, and the time•expired men were sent on to the depot of their respective regiments, the invalids to the Royal Military Hospital at Netley and the convicts to Millbank prison. Th o cheater sailed from Spithead for the Thames at 4 . 30 p.m. on Saturday, with the wind light from south• ward. Two births and two delths occurred on board since leaving Calcutta. The troops in garrison were on Friday brigaded OR Woolwich-common in heavy marching order, and were inspected by Sir Richard Dacres, the Major-General commanding, in preparation for a general inspection, to be held, according to present orders, to-morrow by the Field-Marshal command ing in chief. Durin g the marching past of the Royal nom Artillery i n b a tt er i e s, one of the horses be longing to the A brigade, G battery, ridden by Chac. Purfitt, fell forwards, throwing his rider, wh o was severely crushed by the wheels of the carriage passing over his body, and died in the hospital Et few hours afterwards. The new cavalry barracks at Colchester a re now nearly ready for the reception of troops, an d i t is stated that they will be occupied the first w ee k i nc May by a detachment of the 12th Lancers. ----•a: